by Andy Watts | Sep 28, 2005 | Opinion
The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is guilty of “insider trading” by requesting the sale of his remaining stock in the Hospital Corporation of America. Legal interest in the matter gravitates...
by Rod Benson | Sep 26, 2005 | Opinion
We learned Tuesday that a new judge was on its way to Australia’s High Court. Attorney-General Philip Ruddock announced the appointment of Judge Justice Susan Crennan to replace retiring judge Michael McHugh in November. This is the fifth Howard government...
by Bruce Prescott | Sep 26, 2005 | Opinion
Twenty-five years ago fundamentalists vociferously contended that unnamed “liberals” at Southern Baptist Convention seminaries were leading the denomination on a slippery slope that would undermine our effectiveness in proclaiming the gospel. As moderates...
by Michael Helms | Sep 23, 2005 | Opinion
Should we look for God in every storm? I’ve been mulling over that question a lot since Katrina rudely interrupted the lives of our Gulf Coast neighbors and Hurricane Rita now gains strength and threatens another part of the Gulf Coast region. Many people,...
by James L. Evans | Sep 23, 2005 | Opinion
Wiley Bennett, pastor of Woodland Hill Baptist Church in Tyler, Texas, welcomed Katrina evacuees into his community with these words on the message sign in front of his church: “The Big Easy is the modern day Sodom and Gomorrah.” It is standard practice to...
by Bruce Prescott | Sep 22, 2005 | Opinion
A recent controversy over which “Holy Scriptures” on which Muslims must place their hands when swearing to tell the truth threatens to shake the biblical foundations of the state of North Carolina. When finally resolved, it might also set a precedent that...
